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    Human behavior refers to the mental, physical, emotional, and social activities that people experience throughout their lives from prenatal to adulthood stages. Behavior is influenced by culture, society, values and genetics. Several theories aim to explain human behavior. Psychoanalytic theory focuses on the unconscious and conscious mind. Structural development theory explains personality development through id, ego and superego. Cultural relativism posits that behaviors must be understood within their cultural context. Trait theory views behavior as emerging from types of personality traits and habits.

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    Human behavior refers to the mental, physical, emotional, and social activities that people experience throughout their lives from prenatal to adulthood stages. Behavior is influenced by culture, society, values and genetics. Several theories aim to explain human behavior. Psychoanalytic theory focuses on the unconscious and conscious mind. Structural development theory explains personality development through id, ego and superego. Cultural relativism posits that behaviors must be understood within their cultural context. Trait theory views behavior as emerging from types of personality traits and habits.

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    Human behavior refers to the mental, physical, emotional, and social activities that people experience throughout their lives from prenatal to adulthood stages. Behavior is influenced by culture, society, values and genetics. Several theories aim to explain human behavior. Psychoanalytic theory focuses on the unconscious and conscious mind. Structural development theory explains personality development through id, ego and superego. Cultural relativism posits that behaviors must be understood within their cultural context. Trait theory views behavior as emerging from types of personality traits and habits.

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    Human behavior – refers to be the capacity of mental, physical, emotional, and social activities
    experienced during the five stages of a human being's life which entails the prenatal, infancy,
    childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. This definitely encompasses the behaviors as dictated by
    culture, society, values, morals, ethics, and genetics (Business Dictionary, 2016).

    Human behavior -is the expression used to depict a person's actions and conduct (Boyd, 2016).

    Theories:

    1. Psychoanalytic Theory- mostly focused on drives unconscious-preconscious-


    consciousness which was made by Sigmund Freud (DePoy & Gilson, 2012).
    2. Topographical Theory- which reflects the considerations such as Unconscious if
    repressed fantasies and experiences of childhood and adolescence; inaccessible to
    consciousness and then there is preconscious which shows accessible to consciousness and
    constitutes a censor which blocks the unconscious. Then also there is conscious-sensations
    due to stimuli from the outer world and inner events (Quizlet, 2017).
    3. Structural Development- the theory that explains the Personality Development of
    human. Infant is a pure id, embraced and managed by the pleasure principle and requests
    total and instantaneous indulgence or gratification. Id bumps with truth turning out to
    move to ego development. The ego builds up practical strategies for coping, entailing the
    competence for delaying gratification. In early childhood, the oedipal complex exists,
    which creates the superego (Quizlet, 2017).
    4. Positivist or Objectivist Theory- expounds that social phenomena possesses a genuine
    and real existence that can be said as factual and can be learned or studied via natural
    science research methods and the discovery of the underlying laws (Greene & Kropf,
    2010).
    5. Theory of Cultural Relativism – pertains to be values, beliefs, models of behavior, and
    conceptions of the nature of the world must be realized and recognized with understanding
    within the framework of the culture in which they take place. The prevailing culture
    concludes the contours and boundaries of normality and deviance. Ethnic behavioral
    norms and expressions of emotional needs may be at variance from those of the superior
    culture and may be defined as abnormal (Quizlet, 2017).

    6. Humanistic Theory – is explained by Carl Rogers as a theory where people have at their
    earnest and sincerest core a positive goodness and will express that when accepted and
    trusted ( Tammico, 2012).
    7. Trait/Type Theory- is the theory that explains behavior as based of types of personality
    or traits. Types are made up of traits, which in sequence are encompassed of several habits
    like extroversion, optimism, care freeness, impulsivity, moody, easygoing, etc. (Tammico,
    2012).

    References:
    Boyd, N. (2016). What is Human Behavior? - Definition &
    Explanation. Retrieved from http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-human-behavior-
    definition-l
    esson-quiz.html

    Business Dictionary. (2016). Human Behavior. Retrieved from


    http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/human-behavior.html.

    DePoy, E. & Gilson, S. (2012). Human Behavior Theory and Applications: A Critical Thinking
    Approach. Singapore: SAGE

    Greene, R. & Kropf, N. (2010). Human Behavior: A Diversity of Framework. London: Aldine
    Transaction Publishers

    Tammico (2012). Human Behaviour Theories. Retrieved


    https://www.slideshare.net/tammico/human-behaviour-theories1

    Human Behavior Theories Flash Cards. https://quizlet.com/17981156/human-


    behavior-theories-flash-cards/

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